How to start word programming

[Bibek]

Hello all,
I need to manipulate word docs using c#.net and the application should work
for the system which doesn't have microsoft office installed and for all the
versions of Microsoft word docs.
what are the steps to start on this.
Any help would be very helpful.

 

[Jean-Guy Marcil]

Hello all,
I need to manipulate word docs using c#.net and the application should work
for the system which doesn't have microsoft office installed and for all the
versions of Microsoft word docs.

How can you open a Word document if Office is not installed?
I do not believe that this is possible.

You could contact Microsoft and ask them, nicely, that they give you access
to the binary format of Word documents... Then you might be able to do
somehting... But I bet that it would be very, very, very, very, very
complex...

And all versions to boot...

I think you need to reconsider your approach...

Something crazy perhaps:
You might be able to automate Acrobat (Or some other similar applications
that have "Create from Word" as an option) to convert the Word documents to
PDF files. Then, from there, save those as RTF. RTF files can be opened
fairly easily, but then you need to deal with RTF codes and the fact that
this document will most likely be layed out very differently from the
original Word document...

Or, make your application work only on machines that have Office installed...

What do you want to do?